Three or five steps to travel all over the world, seven or eight people and millions of soldiers are close at hand, lasting forever. These poems have been handed down from China.

Three or five steps all over the world, seven or eight people and millions of soldiers are close at hand, all corners of the country for generations. These poems are descriptions of the traditional opera art in China.

When it comes to Chinese opera, we have to mention one place-Shanxi.

The model of painted pottery Baixi Building in Han Dynasty discovered in Yuncheng has a dynamic acrobatics in the building, which can be said to be the epitome of the art of singing and dancing in Baixi in southern Shanxi.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were many writers of Shanxi Yuan Zaju, including Shanxi Bai Pu and Zheng Guangzu. Therefore, Shanxi is known as the "cradle of China opera", which really has no false reputation.

Music and stage are just like movies and cinemas, symphonies and concert halls today. The stage is a unique architectural style of China's drama performance. Most of the ancient stages in the Sanjin area are located in the temple, with the stage facing north, the platform mouth generally facing the main hall, and the open space in the middle is where the people watch, which can be said to have both the functions of offering sacrifices to gods and entertaining people.

With the vigorous development of traditional Chinese opera, Shanxi almost reached the level of "every village has a temple, and there is a stage in the temple", which means that Shanxi opera has been deeply integrated into people's daily life. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 10 theaters in Jinyuan, all of which are located in Shanxi, and no trace can be found in other places. There were at least twenty stages in the Ming Dynasty, and countless in the Qing Dynasty.